Plus: 6 Important Issues at Stake in Appropriations Bills
September 28 2022
Good morning from Washington, where pro-life lawmakers steam about the FBI’s heavy-handed arrest of an anti-abortion activist and see it as more corruption at the Justice Department. Mary Margaret Olohan reports on this and the Catholic activist’s “not guilty” plea. Lame-duck Democrats shouldn’t make spending decisions after the election, Matt Dickerson writes. On the podcast, the topic is abortion’s underreported effects on men. Plus: Jarrett Stepman on a media about-face on “top surgeries” for kids; Ben Lieberman on holding down gas prices; and Adam Kissel on challenging Biden’s student loan bailout. On this date in 1542, Spanish explorer Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo arrives in San Diego Bay while searching for the Strait of Anian, a mythical all-water route across North America.
The top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee says the dramatic arrest of Mark Houck is “consistent with what our most recent whistleblower” told Republicans about the FBI.
How lawmakers approach a new spending bill could affect inflation and what Congress does on border security, the IRS, and Biden administration overreach.
Pictures purportedly showing the mangled bodies of five aborted babies have inflamed fears that a D.C. abortionist is performing illegal partial-birth abortions in the nation’s capital.
Over the years, Herbie Newell of Lifeline Children’s Services has come to see that “abortion isn’t about liberating women,” but “the sexual ‘liberation’ of men.”
The new government’s stances on social issues, migration, and skepticism toward the European Union have led many commentators to practically warn of the dawn of a new dark age.
